To hate the word "spenny"

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"I have a great hand cream, it's a little bit spenny, but totally worth it."

It makes me cringe. Especially when prefaced with "a little bit".

Not sure why I hate it so much. Possibly because people who use it always buy the thing anyway - and it's usually in reference to a luxury item. Normally the thing is pretty darn expensive for what it is (£100 face cream). It conjures up a certain image in my mind: Someone who thinks they're posher than they are. They have to tell everyone how expensive everything is they have bought.

• Was my council tax bill or rent "a little bit spenny" this year? No.
• Is my Soho House membership, or a dinner at Nobu, that I'm telling you (bragging) about "a little bit spenny"? Yes.

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Hahahaha Genny Lec.

Please may I also add Panny D and Menty B 🐍🦯

I say spenny whenever I’m describing something as expensive.

Never heard anyone say 'Spenny' only 'spendy'

I haven't seen it on here but I've heard it a fair bit in real life and I'm with you OP - awful.

I did keep hearing 'spendy' and just assuming it was an accent thing (I have a different accent to usual one in the place I live) but I realised it's actually spenny, which is worse.

Have never heard of it before. Does spendy mean the same thing? Not heard of that either.

I've never heard anyone use it. It’s a bit cringe though 🤣

My brother says spenny 🤢 he has said it for years now, and he's 34. Could be regional (Lincolnshire/Staffordshire)?

I'm afraid so 😬

Sauvignon Blanc.

If it's used a lot on here then I've obviously been lucky and accidentally managed to somehow completely avoid every single post that it's been used in. Never heard it in my life.

Spendy has been around for donkeys years but never heard spenny used.

Maybe this hasn’t reached the NW of England yet - I think here in Liverpool we’d think it was short for Spencer.

Never heard of it

I thought ‘genny lec’ was General Electric 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Also the randomly named "Doggy".
NB I haven't lived round there for 40 years so I don't know if this nickname still stands but it was one of the pit villages -well, former pit villages now.

It is. And if the Tories get in they are threatening Natty Servs

😆😆You clearly know my ex-SIL!

I have only heard it as part of a place name - Spennymoor in Co Durham. I have never been there but now wondering if it is particularly expensive to visit! Not a fan of yoof speak - I suspect in 10 years' time there will be terrible communication issues between the various generations if this sort of thing goes on being acceptable. Heaven help overseas visitors. They must get even more confused than the rest of us.

I have used this word. 😂

Not a teenager. I’m an educated professional.

I don’t say holibobs or famalam - they aren’t abbreviations or quicker to say than the original words whereas ‘bit spenny’ is quick.

Oh and I hate gin.

My DD (21) says it a lot and I have grown to kind of like it, though I'd never say it myself. I think it's a very young person's phrase, when they are just navigating their way through how to best spend their money, what's worth it, what isn't, and what they can afford.

Swapping those two words around makes it sound very Game Of Thrones!

"Accompany me, troubled damsel; and we shall arrive in Machynlleth on the dawn of the fair morrow."

I don’t say holibobs or famalam - they aren’t abbreviations or quicker to say than the original words whereas ‘bit spenny’ is quick.

No quicker than 'bit pricey'. Besides, using one more syllable to say 'bit expensive' isn't exactly time-consuming!

Personally, I prefer 'poundsy'.

"I did enjoy our holibobs at Westy-Supems, but we bought so much icy-cree every time we'd finished playing with our bucky-spays that it all ended up a bit poundsy."

I've never heard it before but yes, sounds cringey.

@AllProperTeaIsTheft

Sure, it’s also only one more syllable to say cannot rather than can’t but generally people don’t (do not).

I don’t think I have ever used the word ‘pricey’ in my life, I would say expensive. I find ‘Bit spenny?’ useful as a quick way of saying to DH that I am not sure whether we/he/I should purchase something due to cost. I wouldn’t say it to e.g my parents as it would just create confusion.